week 1 - monday :: basic concepts of new media ::

week 1 - monday 28 march

Introduction - What are "New Media"?

Introductions
Review syllabus, course requirements
- Office Hours : Monday, 11.50 - 12.50 and by appointment
- Office : 251B Communications Building
- Peer Groups ; Peer Group - Catalyst Link

assignments

In Lab : Complete Catalyst webQ (counts towards participation grade)
In Lab : Create Student Course Blogs ; e-mail blog URL (link) to instructor and classmates using the course mailing list (requires that you send an e-mail using your UW Net ID account)
- A brief guide to mailing lists
- Review : Blogger (blogger - free) ; How to set up a site with blogger
- Review : Live Journal (live journal - free) ; How to set up a blog using Live Journal
- Review : TypePad (typepad - from Movable Type - $) ; How to set up a blog with Typepad
Reading for the next class :
(1) Chapter 4, "Technologies of the Third Mediamorphosis" from Mediamorphosis: Understanding New Media by Roger Fidler (1997) and (2) "Social Aspects of New Media Technologies" from Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research by J. Bryant and D. Zillman (eds) (1994) (both on eReserve)
- blog post due by 9.30 am Wed 30 Mar : Two "ah-ha's" from these readings. [ 1 post ]

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